Re: [Synaptic-devel] Testversion 1 for 0.53 available

[Michael Vogt]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:18:22PM -0400, sashko wrote:
> >- reworked the column editor (thanks Sebastian)
> I'm just thinking what if column editor implementation will be done like 
> that one on the screenshot attached (thunderbird), it seems to be common 
> for gtk applications, isn't it? And column rearrangement can be done by 
> drag'n'drop there.

I like the idea of having a right-click menu to control what columns
are visible. This allows quick switching on/off of the columns. I will
have a serious look at this later. 

I plan to add optional "section" and "component" columns to the tree
that are not shown by default. But quick switching is importend for
this idea I think.

About the drag'n'drop: it's definitly something nice, but it's
something I want to see implemented from gtk upstream. 
 
> >- various bugfixes
> what about to put the Force Version button directly on the "versions 
> tab" like Michael Vogt said before?

This is something we may change later. The implementation of the
properties display changed between 0.48<->0.50+. This make the code a
lot cleaner, but it makes the "buttons-in-properties-feature" hard.
 
> And about that "hackish" search implementataion.
> I'm using couple application which also have search-im-the-list 
> implemented. It works like:
> you type "a"  - all the list is shrinked displaing the lines which start 
> with "a"
> type "b" - the list is shrinked furthes to lines which start with "ab" 
> and so on.

We tried this for synaptic with a little entry widget and dynamic
filtering. It was way slow on my 1Ghz maschine. Not unusable slow but
so slow that it was no fun. I can dig out the patch and post it here
if someone is interessted in testing. 

thanks for your feedback,
 Michael

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